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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.

Universe Creator Whole Life
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

World Great Constant You
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Faith Strong Enough Journey
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I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Twist Surface Clean Turn
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me'.

People Usable Most Wear
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Let go of the things that make you feel dead! Life is worth living!

Worth Dead Feel Living
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We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

Live Injury Best Matter
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ability Listen Temper Almost
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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Time Worst Storm Spring
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Better Life Thing Purpose
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It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Mouth Power Determine Whisper
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The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

People Thing Great Leader
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Clever World Today Myself
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Intellect Certain One Permanent
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Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

Wrong Being People Right
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Better Best Rest Good
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most Listen Intent Reply
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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Road Success Person Always
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Great Settle Heart Matter
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.

Falling Love Girlfriend Dating
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CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.

Struggle Unique Positive Talent's
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

War Receive Position Enemy
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Emotion Action Translate Compassion
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
Attitude Challenge Yourself Good
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No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

Atlantis Underwater Fictional
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What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Religion Media Portrays Weaponize
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Time Certain Succeed Weakness
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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Down Liberty Peace Defense
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

Love Image Perfect Potential
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

Future Part Journey Sign
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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Want Success Whom Much
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Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

Live Life Never Youth
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The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

Mistake People Important Comfortable
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

Music Love Profound Jazz
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We'd done a couple of road trips with my big chair, and it was such a hassle if we didn't have the van with the foldout ramp. I figured: There's got to be some option that I can use on the go. Now I can go anywhere with my friends, which is a big, life-changing thing. I can sit on it for as long as I need to.

Couple Long Road trips Hassle
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Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

Need Lost Wheelchair Technically
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Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Unique Culture Single Mold
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

Demon Disability Personal Sabotage
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.

Want Way Disability Call
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At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

Topic Human Hope Concrete
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I thought this should be a travel show, because a lot of people with physical disabilities get discouraged.

People Because Travel Show
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Better Trust Dark Sunshine
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

Over Career Unlike Life
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The Internet is crazy, and I love it!
Internet The Crazy Love
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I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don’t have one.

Plan About More Paranoid
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Wisdom Become Depend Believe
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.

Christmas Carol Five Auditioned
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Often Art All Sometime
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